Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

New American Standard Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

King James Version

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Holman Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.

International Standard Version

Back in those days, Israel didn't yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.

A Conservative Version

In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

American Standard Version

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Amplified

In those days [when the judges governed] there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Bible in Basic English

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

Julia Smith Translation

In those days no king in Israel: a man will do the right in his eyes.

King James 2000

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel; each one did what was right in his own eyes.

Modern King James verseion

In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did the right in his own eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

In those days there was no king in Israel: but every man did what seemed him right.

NET Bible

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

New Heart English Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Webster

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

World English Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Youngs Literal Translation

In those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In those days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

in Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

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Context Readings

A Decision Is Made About The Tribe Of Benjamin

24 And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Cross References

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Judges 18:1

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in; for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

Judges 19:1

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Deuteronomy 12:8

Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, each one whatever is right in his own eyes.

Judges 18:7

Then the five men departed, and came to La'ish, and saw the people who were there, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sido'nians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth, and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sido'nians and had no dealings with any one.

Psalm 12:4

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Proverbs 3:5

Confide in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own intelligence;

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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